{"id":8688,"date":"2014-07-07T18:20:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/my-hero-3\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T11:37:11","slug":"my-hero-3","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/june-2004\/31\/my-hero-3\/","title":{"rendered":"My hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Peter Gethin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was young I looked up to Mike Hawthorn and Stirling Moss. But when I got involved in the sport in the early 1960s, Jim Clark became my all-time hero. I&#8217;ve seen them all and he was the best. He had the ability to make it look so simple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I raced against him in sportscars and I was also in the Formula Two race in which he died. Something broke, because no-one would crash where he went off; it was an utter waste. I had breakfast with him that morning. I remember having bacon and eggs with the greatest driver ever, thinking, &#8216;What do I talk to him about?&#8217; But he was so modest and funny. Not only was he the best, he was one of the nicest guys I ever met.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,193,34401,34435,36565,34061],"issue_decade":[121591],"issue_year":[121637],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/8688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269131,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/8688\/revisions\/269131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}